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Overview
The Cloud Engineer (Associate) course is designed to provide foundational knowledge of Alibaba Cloud services. Participants will learn to create, configure, and manage cloud resources effectively, preparing them for advanced roles in cloud operations and infrastructure management.
Objectives
By the end of this course, leaner will be able to:
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Understand core Alibaba Cloud services and their applications.
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Gain proficiency in deploying and managing cloud resources via the Alibaba Cloud console.
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Learn basic networking configurations, including VPCs and security groups.
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Acquire knowledge of essential security practices and resource monitoring tools.
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Prepare for the Alibaba Cloud Certified Associate (ACA) Cloud Computing certification.
Prerequisites
This course is designed for beginners; no prior experience with Alibaba Cloud is required.
Course Outline
- Getting to Know Alibaba Cloud
- Who we are
- Global infrastructure
- Regions and zones
- Alibaba Cloud CDN
- Choosing where to deploy services
- Why cloud?
- What is the cloud
- Cloud deployment and service models
- Shared responsibility model
- Cloud pricing models
- Basic Cloud Account Security
- Alibaba Cloud accounts and identities
- Root user, RAM user, RAM user groups, RAM roles
- Interacting with Alibaba Cloud
- Setting up your Alibaba Cloud account
- Authentication & authorization
- Credentials in Alibaba Cloud
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Locking down the root user
- Alibaba Cloud accounts and identities
- Virtual Private Cloud Fundamentals
- o Networking basics and terminology (IP addresses and CIDR
blocks) - What is Alibaba Cloud VPC
- Concepts & components
- vSwitches
- vRouters
- Network ACLs
- Security groups
- Basic operations
- Setting up security groups
- Enabling Internet access for resources within VPCs
- o Networking basics and terminology (IP addresses and CIDR
- Elastic Compute Service Fundamentals
- Computing on and off the cloud
- Understanding traditional and cloud servers
- Compute options on Alibaba Cloud
- What is Alibaba Cloud ECS
- Functions and features
- Basic operations
- Launching and releasing instances
- Duplicating launched instances
- Other compute options on Alibaba Cloud
- Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (container)
- Alibaba Cloud Elastic Container Instances (serverless)
- Object Storage Service Fundamentals
- Storage types on Alibaba Cloud (file, block, object storage)
- Elastic Block Storage
- Understanding cloud disks
- Apsara File Storage NAS
- What is OSS
- Concepts & components
- Buckets, objects, URL identifiers
- Functions and features
- Bucket policies, versioning, storage tiers, lifecycle
management
- Bucket policies, versioning, storage tiers, lifecycle
- Use cases
- Basic operations
- Creating buckets
- Uploading and downloading objects from buckets
- ApsaraDB RDS Fundamentals
- Databases on the cloud
- RDBs and RDBMSs
- Managed and self-hosted DBs
- What is ApsaraDB RDS
- Supported engines
- What is a DB instance
- Security & backups
- Tools
- Data Transmission Service
- Database Management Service
- Other DB options on Alibaba Cloud
- PolarDB (Cloud-native RDB developed in-house)
- Other options for NoSQL, etc.
- Databases on the cloud
- Server Load Balancer Fundamentals
- Availability and business continuity
- What is SLB
- Types of load balancers in Alibaba Cloud
- Concepts and components
- Listener, backend server groups
- Health checks
- Additional features
- Disaster recovery
- Auto Scaling
- DDoS protection
- Auto Scaling Fundamentals
- What is Auto Scaling
- How Auto Scaling works
- Concepts & components
- Scaling modes, scaling components
- Billing for Auto Scaling
- Basic operations
- Setting up Auto Scaling with SLB
- CloudMonitor Fundamentals
- Why monitoring matters
- What is CloudMonitor
- Concepts & components
- Application groups
- Dashboards and alerts
- Basic operations
- Creating a dashboard and setting up an alert
